does anyone know if you can just pay a huge fine and not have to go to a state ref if you happened to get a ticket? i just dont wanna deal with the hassle of taking all the parts out and besides...im selling my car!!!

thanks for your help guys!!!

 

well my catless exhaust ticket was a 1000 bucks so its your call.

 

wtf, when did u get that simon?


btw, that huge fine pretty huge.

 

a while ago with the apexi gt spec haha.

 

Does double jeopardy applies here? (sp?)

 

i didnt get a ticket for being catless...the cop just saw my engine bay and said it doesnt look stock. on my ticket it just says smog violation 27156(b)cvc...what does this mean?

 

that means fat ticket =\ i rembme when i got mines awhile back, catlesss, intake, and other stuf, took him two tickets to fill everything, in the mail i got fined a little under 2grand..

 

so basically if you've got an uber setup and it would cost you like 5 grand to pass smog, but you just bought the car and don't have to smog for another 4 years or something, you have to option of paying a ridonkulous fine?

 

Yah, but then you have problems when you try to register it the next year. Also, for new cars it is now 6 years.

 

so when you get the 2 thousand dollar fine, u can just go to state ref then they waive the fine? is that how it works?

 

since when was it 6 years? 2002?

 

since 2005. they added on another 2 years. so 02's dont have to smog until 08. unless they sell their car that is (i think)

 

yo eric, good luck with it bro. as ive told you, im still dealing with mine.

basically, that code they gave you is simply saying you have "modified emission"

-Ave

 

if you change your car back to stock in the engine bay they just inspect it and you pay like 15bucks.

 

"CVC 27156(b) No person shall operate or leave standing upon any highway any
motor vehicle which is required to be equipped with a motor vehicle
pollution control device under Part 5 (commencing with Section 43000)
of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code or any other certified
motor vehicle pollution control device required by any other state
law or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to that law, or
required to be equipped with a motor vehicle pollution control device
pursuant to the National Emission Standards Act (42 U.S.C. Secs.
1857f-1 to 1857f-7, inclusive) and the standards and regulations
adopted pursuant to that federal act, unless the motor vehicle is
equipped with the required motor vehicle pollution control device
which is correctly installed and in operating condition. No person
shall disconnect, modify, or alter any such required device."